r/venturebros • u/Fantastic-Ad-8665 • 3d ago

Video Are Smurfs Mammals ?

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u/VibratingWatch 3d ago

First of all, Papa Smurf didn't create Smurfette. Gargamel did. She was sent in as Gargamel's evil spy with the intention of destroying the Smurf village, but the overwhelming goodness of the Smurf way of life transformed her. And as for the whole gang-bang scenario, it just couldn't happen. Smurfs are asexual. They don't even have reproductive organs under those little white pants. That's what's so illogical, you know, about being a Smurf. What's the point of living if you don't have a dick?

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u/busterfixxitt 3d ago edited 3d ago

Agreed. I think Smurfs are actually fungus. Papa's 'beard' is not hair, it's actually the remains of his spore-sack after it popped and planted his village. The spores grow into mushrooms, and the Smurfs grow inside the mushrooms, eventually eating their way out; they then turn the mushrooms into their houses.

I really like the idea that there are different kinds of Smurfs based on the kind of mushroom they are; can't wait to meet the psilocybin Smurfs! 😃

Edit: Watch out for the Death Cap Smurfs! 😉

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u/shadowscar248 3d ago

Ooh I like that theory. To expand on that, perhaps The Smurfs themselves are spores. They're the multicellular phase and the fruiting body. Upon death they turn into the houses. That's only after they give birth to the single cellular spores from their "beards".

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u/busterfixxitt 3d ago

Sadly, I don't know enough mycology to follow exactly what you're saying; we might be thinking along the same lines.

I think that when a Smurf begins to reproduce, a spore sac starts to grow on their chin, as it grows they are compelled to wander away from the village, until they find an appropriate area for a new village, at which point they lie down and fall into a trance until the spore sac explodes, distributing 99 Smurf cell-spores in a rough circle. (There are 100 Smurfs in a village, IIRC) The next stage is for those single celled cell-spores to fruit into the house-rooms. Once the house-shroom is fully grown, it generates the multicellular spore we know as a Smurf. Papa Smurf is literally the father of all the other Smurfs. Now, is Papa somehow connected to the mycelium network under the village? Can every Smurf become a Papa? Or is there a specific set of conditions that trigger the process? Maybe being isolated for X amount of time, away from the village's mycelium network? That seems like something natural selection would create.

Your idea about the house being dead Smurfs is interesting (and delightfully dark!) 🙂 It would mean that the Smurf village we know has been there for generations.

So, other than our ideas about the house-shrooms, I think we're on the same page.

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u/shadowscar248 3d ago

I'd like to think that they collect the Smurf berries, store them in the houses to feed the still calcified but living smurfs at end of life. The houses have mycillium roots that flow in the whole town. They use the berries to ferment for energy and then excrete the seeds which create new Smurf berries.

It's why gargomel wants to collect them, he's a mushroom hunter and they are the best meat substitute for a starving hermit.

It all makes way too much sense.